Winners in American Business Awards First Tech and New Product Awards Ceremony Announced

Online PR News – 20-October-2012 – Maidenhead - U.K., United Kingdom – SDL (LSE: SDL) the leader in Global Information Management is pleased to announce that SDL Studio GroupShare has been named the winner of a People’s Choice Stevie® Award for Favourite New Products, in the 10th Annual American Business Awards and was honored with a Silver Stevie® Award in the New Product or Service of the Year - Software - Project Management Solution category.

SDL Studio GroupShare is the collaboration hub for small and medium sized localization teams using SDL Trados Studio® and SDL MultiTerm®. With GroupShare teams work via a single platform containing centralized translation memories, terminology and projects. The result is greater control to deliver quality translations faster.

The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.

The People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products are a feature of The American Business Awards in which the general public can vote for their favorite new products and services of the year. More than 98,000 votes were cast in 30 product categories in this year’s vote. All new products and services honored in the ABA’s new product categories were included in people’s choice voting.

Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 270 executives nationwide who participated in the judging process this year.

“We are honored that SDL Studio GroupShare has received a Silver Stevie Award for New Product or Service of the Year as a software solution and pleased to have also been named a winner of this year’s People’s Choice Stevie® Award for Favorite New Products,” said Tim McManus, Senior Vice President of products for SDL’s Language Technologies Division. “SDL is delighted to be recognized for our success in providing this further innovation to the language industry.”

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

About SDL
SDL enables global businesses to engage with their customers in the language, the media and at the moment they choose. We help businesses manage their brands, drive global revenues, accelerate speed to market and enrich their customers’ experience. SDL’s enterprise-ready innovative technology and service solutions span the entire customer journey and include social listening and marketing analytics, campaign management, language management and services, video and written content creation, web content management, dynamic technical documentation publication and eCommerce. SDL solutions drive global reach across multiple languages, cultures, channels and media. SDL has over 1,500 enterprise customers, 400 partners and a global infrastructure of 70 offices in 38 countries. For more information, visit www.sdl.com.